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function Get-InjectedThread
{
    <# 
    
    .SYNOPSIS 
    
    Looks for threads that were created as a result of code injection.
    
    .DESCRIPTION
    

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You should definitely check AdrenSys writeup as it covers details about the challenge and the binary, I don't want to repeat what is already done. (Thank you for a great writeup!)

What I would like to add is how I solved this challenge, in a slightly different way, without involving Z3(although it's a great tool, and you should try it :) ).

The key idea is that all 4 parts of the license key must not be equal to 0, but we know that (email_checksum ^ license_checksum ^ 0xaecbcc2) == 0.

The email checksum is 0xaed12f1, so the license_checksum should be 0x01ae33. Keeping in mind that all 4 parts of the license key should not be equal to 0, we can create a license key with 3 parts having value 1 and the 4th part having value 0x42b0.

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Search in IDA for mov eax, 0 and exclude from results those occuring in main function. (Let's save all this in a file named step1)

Then filter the information from step1 to extract only addresses, For example, using this command:

awk '{ print $1 }' step1 | cut -d':' -f2 > avoid_addr

Then use angr script to find a solution.

import angr

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Malware Sample Inspected

Trickbot COVID macro lure via MSFT: ec34b207d503a3c95ee743ee296a08e93a5e960aa4611ea8c39d8e5d4c5f6593

test.js

eval("WScript.CreateObject(\"WScript.Shell\").Run(\"calc.exe\");");

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# IDAPython 3
import ida_funcs
import idautils
import ida_ua
import ida_xref
import ida_bytes
import heapq

from collections import defaultdict
from ctypes      import c_ubyte

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//
//  main.m
//  EndpointSecurityDemo
//
//  Created by Omar Ikram on 17/06/2019 - macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta 1 (19A471t)
//  Updated by Omar Ikram on 15/08/2019 - macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta 5 (19A526h)
//  Updated by Omar Ikram on 01/12/2019 - macOS Catalina 10.15 (19A583)
//  Updated by Omar Ikram on 31/01/2021 - macOS Big Sur 11.1 (20C69)
//  Updated by Omar Ikram on 07/05/2021 - macOS Big Sur 11.3.1 (20E241)
//  Updated by Omar Ikram on 04/07/2021 - macOS Monterey 12 Beta 2 (21A5268h)